pen4hire on July 19th, 2009

Destination: Australia Movie: Australia (2008) Stars: Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackson and AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE Rather than talk about this movie which was released last year, let me instead just suggest that if you have not seen it,   To comment and

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pen4hire on July 17th, 2009

What is this notion that we need some sort of different reading list in the summer?  Once you are out of school, in America, at least, you don’t have long, uninterrupted periods of time to read. I tend to read on the airplane, and put the books away at my destination. Too busy looking at [...]

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pen4hire on July 16th, 2009

Destination: Finland Book: A Winter Book by Tove Jansson Finnish Winter Retreat Guest Author Michele Simeone If you’re tired of hearing about summer, how does a good dose of Finnish winter sound? It was during my second year in Finland that my friend surprised me with a copy of [amazonify]0954899520::text:::: A Winter Book [/amazonify].

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pen4hire on July 15th, 2009

Destination: Tokyo, Japan Book: Little Adventures in Tokyo by Rick Kennedy Guest Post by Christine Gros-Loh I have been living in Tokyo for nearly three and a half years now, and before that I lived here on and off throughout my twenties. So I know Tokyo really well – or thought I did, until I [...]

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pen4hire on July 14th, 2009

Destination: France Book: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik I seem to be reading backward in time through my pile of French books. First I read A Sweet Life in Paris, released just this year and about an American in Paris in the present. I have just finished Paris to the Moon, published in [...]

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pen4hire on July 13th, 2009

Destination: Finland Book: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson A Journey into the Finnish Summer by guest author, Michele Simeon Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Tove Jansson has been called the “laureate of small things” for her astounding ability to capture beauty, darkness, and meaning in deceptively simple details. Jansson’s novel The Summer Book follows an elderly [...]

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pen4hire on July 12th, 2009

Do summer days make you wish you were on an island? See some books about about Greek Islands, and specifically about Crete. And over at Spot Cool Stuff, I wrote about my idyll on the island of Siphnos. Or journey to the Caribbean with this British travel writer. Have a nice trip to the islands!

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pen4hire on July 10th, 2009

Time again for the Wandering Educators column dedicated to A Traveler’s Library. Each month that wonderful web site gives me space to ramble on about what happened the previous month here at A Traveler’s Library.

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Destination: Italy Author: David Farley Books: An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones Pagan Holiday by Tony Perrottet I talked with David Farley a couple of weeks ago about his book, An [amazonify]1592404545::text::::Irreverent Curiosity[/amazonify] which is released today. The book revolves around his time living in a small [...]

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